ICE BUILDING, CHILLED WATER SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A chill water system combining a storage vessel (10), a multiplicity of ice encapsulating units (11) contained in the vessel and a chiller system (60). The storage vessel contains a volume of glycol and water solution having a freezing point of about twenty six degrees F. The ice encapsulating units (11) comprise sealed containers filled with a deionized water. The containers have imperfect geometric shape and deformable wall structures to permit an increase in enclosed volume as said water therein freezes. Chiller system (60) is operatively associated with the vessel and cools the gycol and water solution to about twenty six degrees to freeze the water in the containers (11). A topping tank (90) and an inventory tank (93) receive liquid form the storage vessel (10) as the ice encapsulating units (11) freeze and expand in volume.